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Annual Rogue River
Roundup Opens Today
A horse parade at 5 p.m. to
day will open the 14th Annual
Rogue River Roundup, spon
sored by the Jackson county
Mounted Sheriff's posse. The pa
rade will start at Ivy and Sixth
sts. and go east on Main st. to
Bartlelt St., nofth to sixth, then
west on Sixth to Ivy st.
Tonight will be "family night"
at the rodeo with children ad
mitted for half price. The per
formance will start at 7:30 p.m.
at the Posse grounds on Sage rd.
Saturday at 2 p.m. will be the
major parade following the
same route at the horse parade.
Rodeo Event
Rodeo events will start with
saddle bronc riding, then bull
dogging, bareback riding, calf
roping, and bull riding.
There will be several sections
to each performance.
Scheduled between the main
events will be Posse drills,
races, games and trick riding by
Lynn and Jimmy Merri of Red
. Bluff, Calif.
As of noon Friday, 63 local
and out of town entries had reg
istered at Roundup headquar
ters, 7 South Riverside ave. .
A purse of $1,000, plus the
entry fees, will be divided
among the winners of the five
Boyer To Altend
Demo Convention
Robert Boyer, chairman of the
Democratic State Central com
mittee, and two other Jackson
county people will attend the
Democratic National convention
in Chicago which starts Monday.
Boyer, who also heads the
county Democratic committee,
will leave for Portland by car
this evening, and will spend Sat
urday in the state Democratic of
fices, conferring with other party
officials. He will leave that eve
ning by air for Chicago where he
will serve as an alternate dele
sate to Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger. Alex Hamilton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Moore Hamilton. Med
ford. also will be in Chicago,
driving there from Washington,
D. C, where he is attending
school. Richard Lamb, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Drew Lamb. Ash
land, left by car Thursday eve
ning. He will serve as a page at
the convention.
First Non-Partisan "Candidates Fair"
Scheduled at McLoughlin October 27
Candidates for national, state
and county offices have been
invited to attend the first non
partisan "Candidates Fair" at
McLoughlin Junior High school
auditorium Oct. 27.
The fair is being sponsored
by the Medford League of Wom
en Voters, and is patterned after
a similar fair in Eugene in 1954.
Mrs. I. S. Thomas, voters
service chairman of the league,
said several candidates already
have accepted invitations.
Among them are Douglas Mc
Kay, Republican candidate for
the senate, and Democrat Sen.
Wayne Morse, who is seeking re
election. Others who have said they
plan to attend include Charles
O. Porter, Eugene, candidate for
congress from the fourth dis
trict; Harris Ellsworth of Rose-
bue. who is seeking reelection
to the same "ff'; Sig Unmdexand introductions at booths oftpast two years.
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events. The Gibson Saddlery in
Medford is awarding a Gibson
contest style roping saddle val
ued at $250 to the "best all
around cowboy." The saddle
will be lettered with "Rogue
River Roundup 1956."
The "all-around cowboy" is
the contestant who averages the
highest number of points for the
three day rodeo. Each event is
judged on basis of 100 points,
with 40 for first, 30 second, 20
third, and 10 points for fourth
place.
The Roundup queen. Miss
Verna Hickman of Eagle Point,
will reign over week end fes
tivities. Her court includes Miss
Tessie Fisher and Miss Juanita
James, Medford, Miss Maxine
Peile, Eagle Point, and Miss
Marcia Woodward, Butte Falls,
Mac Barbour is show produ
cer, Joe Holmes will be the an
nouncer, with Teddy Billings the
clown and bull fighter. Barbour
also is furnishing stock.
Festival Broadcast
Set for Saturday
Ashland The sixth annual
coast-to-coast broadcast of the
Oregon Shakespearean Festival
will originate from the Ashland
stage at 11 a.m. Saturday,
Aug. 11.
The broadcast production will
be open to the public.
Directing the National Broad
casting company's program again
this year will be Andrew C.
Love of Hollywood, Calif. Love
originated the series in 1951. and
has directed the program at
Ashland since.
Scenes from the 1956 season
history play, "Richard III," will
be heard on the 30-minute
broadcast.
Until last year, the program
was "live," but since the net
work weekend "Monitor" pro
gram was scheduled last year,
the network requested tape
recordings, which are sent to
Hollywood and released on
week-day evening basis.
In addition to the 30-minute
program, three five minute in
terviews with Festival directors
will be recorded and carried
coast-to-coast on "monitor."
The radio adaptation was done
by William Dawkins, and tech
nical facilities are furnished by
NBC's affiliate station here,
KMED.
wno is seeKmg reelection as
state treasurer: Monroe Sweet
land. Democratic candidate for
secretary of state; Mark Hatfield,
Republican candidate for secre
tary of state;, and Robert D.
Holmes, candidate for governor.
Assisting in planning will be
members of the two parties and
representatives of various local
service groups. Mrs. Kathleen
Bash and Mrs. Rosemary Keeney
are the Republican party chair
man on the planning committee,
and Robert Boyer and Mr. and
Mrs. Marcus Norton will repre
sent the Democratic party.
Mrs. Thomas said any service
clubs interested in cooperating
with planning the fair should
contact her by telephoning
3-5889.
Candidates will not be sched
uled to. speak at the fair, but
will be available for greetings
Doubt Expressed
Soviets To Attend
Canal Conference
Note of Acceptance
Causes Confusion
London (U.R) British sources
accused Russia today of trying to
turn next Thursday's Suez Canal
conference into an international
circus and expressed doubt the
Soviets would even attend.
Western Big Three diplomats
consulted on tactics to quash the
Russian move to bring in Com
munist China with eight other
Communist nations and the Arab
world and prepared to reject
Soviet moves to postpone the
conference or move it to Cairo.
' British diplomats studied the
18-page Soviet note of "accept
ance" all night and said it was
so vaguely worded they weren't
sure what it meant. Russia said
it would send a representative,
but the Kremlin attached a whole
series of reservations and counter-proposals.
Not Causes Confusion
The West was thrown into con
fusion by Moscow's failure to say
whether attendance depended on
acceptance of its proposals.
They said any move to turn the
24-nation conference into a 46
nation meeting would auto
matically turn the conference
into a three-ring circus. They
said such an unwieldy meeting
might drag on for months while
Egypt consolidated its hold on
the Suez Canal.
In Washington American of
ficials were heartened today by
Russia's decision to attend the
London conference on the Suez
Canal crisis.
Series of Complaints
They dismissed as primarily
propaganda a series of qualifica
tions and complaints about the
conference attached to the Rus
sian . acceptance. The United
States had expected as much
from the Soviets.
Authorities predicted the Lon
don meeting to which 24 na
tions have been invited will
take place next Thursday as
scheduled, even though the Rus
sians suggested postponing it un
til the end of the month,
They also predicted rejection
of Russia's proposal that the con
ference be enlarged to include
Red satellites, Arab nations and
Red China.
French Against Delay
French spokesmen in Paris
said Russia's bid to invite 22
more nations to the conference
would get short shrift. The
French also said they would re
fuse to delay the conference.
French commentators appear
ed unhappy but not surprised at
the long Russian note but said
"the Russian answer gives some
idea of the position the Russians
will take at the conference.'
Spain officially accepted an in
vitation to the Thursday confer
ence. That left only Egypt and
Greece as nations which have not
replied to the invitation. Greece
earlier this week suggested the
conference be enlarged and post
poned but did not give a yes or
no answer.
Bloodmobile Exceeds
Quota of 240 Pints
The Bloodmobile quota of 240
pints of blood was exceeded by
three pints during the Wednes
day visit of the Bloodmobile
here. It was the second time in
more than two years the quota
has been exceeded, Red Cross
officials said.
Yesterday's Mail Tribune list
ed the quota as 250 pinti. A
total of 306 donors reported, six
more than the quota for donors
set by Red Cross officials. There
were 87 "drop-ins," and 83 pints
of blood were designated as re
placements. tables in the auditorium. Other
activities, including demonstra
tions and exhibits, also are plan
ned. Mrs. Thomas said.
The League of Women Voters
reminded residents that Oct. 6 is
the deadline for registering to
vote in the Nov. 6 general elec
tion. Anyone who has not regis
tered 30 days prior to an elec
tion is ineligible to vote.
To qualify to vote, a person
must be 21 or more, a citizen of
the United States, and have been
a resident of Oregon for six
months immediately preceding
the election. Registration also is
required.
Residents must register if they
have not previously registered,
if they have moved to new ad
dress, if their name has been
changed through court action or
marriage, or if they have not
voted in an election within the
Medford
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SMALL BUSINESS AID RECOMMENDED
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower's Small Business Ad
visory Committee has recom
mended a 14-point program de
signed to aid small businesses.
The program includes tax cuts.
The committee, set up last
April, is headed by Dr. Arthur
F. Burns, chairman of the Presi
dential Council of Economic
Advisers. It made the recom
mendations in an interim report
Thursday.
Mr. Eisenhower assured the
group he would give the recom
mendations "the prompt and
favorable consideration they de
serve both in preparing for
executive action and in drawing
up the administration's legisla
River,
Information Said
Incomplete on
Many Projects
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower today vetoed a
$1,600,000,000 rivers and har
bors bill on grounds that Con
gress acted on "incomplete in
formation" about many of the
measure's projects.
In an unusual election year
action, the President withheld
approval from the bill which
covered 99 projects and 14 river
basin improvements scattered
virtually all over the United
States.
Veto Regretted
The President said he regrets
having to veto the bill. But he
noted that .the bill only author
ized projects and that the next
Congress would have had to de
cide - whether to provide the
money for them. So he said his
veto need "cause no delay" in
starting many worthwhile proj
ects in the bill.
Mr., Eisenhower said some
projects in the bill involved too
little local participation. He said
the "best test yet devised" for
insuring that a project is sound
is the willingness of local peo
ple to invest their own money.
No Reports Made
But his major complaint was
that Congress acted on too many
of the projects without getting
complete reports on them from
the Corps of Engineers.
He said Congress failed to get
a review from the Army Engi
neers or an opinion from affect
ed states for 32 projects in the
bill. These projects involved
more than $530,000,000.
"Without such x review the
Congress must necessarily have
acted on the basis of incomplete
information," the President said.
He said the chief of engineers
has not studied or reported on
some of the projects and in a few
cases field studies' have not yet
been received.
Urges Further Study
Mr Eisenhower said that in
the weeks before Congress next
meets a "careful, orderly re
view" will be undertaken of the
projects in the bill which have
not been fully studied or re
viewed to date. He said this
should enable the Congress to
base its action on a full knowl
edge of all the facts involved.
Son Too Small to Weigh
Born at Local Hospital
A tiny son was born this
morning to Mr. and Mrs. Lowell
Welburn, 127 North Front St.,
Talent, at Sacred Heart hospital.
The baby was so small at birth
it will not be weighed for sev
eral days, according to hospital
officials.
The baby is the first child for
the couple. Welburn is unem
ployed. Weather
FORECAST: Considerable hijth
cloudiness through Saturday.
Mild temperatures. Low to
night 50. High Saturday near
90.
' Temp.
Hirhest Yesterday 9fl
Lowest this Morning 50
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
5:13 a.m.
Sunset
7:20 p.m.
9:27 p.m.
Moonset
First Quarter
Aug. 13
FHUMINfiM ST AltS
Sptra, near the Moon.
Arcturus, high aoovc Spit.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Mars, rises 9:30 p.m.
Saturn, in the south
west . - 9:32 p.m.
Venus, rises 2:20 p.m.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1956
tive program for the new con
gress." Nine of the committee's 14
recommendations require legis
lative action. The others can be
carried out by the various de
partments concerned, a White
House official said.
The first recommendation and
the one containing "the greatest
punch," the official said, would
reduce the basic corporate tax
from 30 per cent to 20 per cent
on net income under $25,000.
The tax rate on net income
over that amount is now 52 per
cent. The basic rate will drop
to 25 per cent next April unless
Congress extends the present
law.
Harbor Bill Vetoed
Hearing Recesses
Until September
The hearing on Southern Pa
cific's abandonment of passenger
service between Eugene .and
Ashland was recessed shortly
after 11 a.m. today and SP will
continue its side of the story
at a "recessed hearing" tenta
tively scheduled for late Sep
tember. Final witnesses this morning
were R. E. Plummer, introduced
as assistant to the SP president,
and Charles B. Nines, engineer
in SP's bureau of transporta
tion research. Both are from San
Francisco and had previously
testified at the hearing.
Plummer Questioned
Complainants questioned
Plummer regarding SP stock,
reasons for discontinuance of
rail passenger service in south
ern Oregon, and whether or not
he was representing SP Presi
dent D. J. Russell at the hear
ing. Plummer repeated his earl
ier testimony that he was not
acquainted with reasons for the
passenger service discontinu
ance. Examiner Clifford Ferguson
also questioned him as to wheth
er of not he and Russell - had
participated in any discussion
concerning the abandonment be
fore the hearing. Plummer de
nied that any such subject had
been discussed by him and the
company president.
Substantial discussion sur
rounded the capacity in which
Plummer was testifying. A writ
ten statement introduced into
the record as part of Plummer's
testimony Thursday stated he
was representing the president.
Today, however, he testified un
der oath that he was not repre
senting Russell. He also said he
is one of several assistants to
the president and his specialty
is finance.
Concerns ExihibiU
Nines' testimony concerned the
21 exhibits on cost and revenue
he had prepared and an exhibit
introduced today. The new ex
hibit dealt with revenue from
passengers on the coastal route
between San Francisco and Los
Angeles from 1948 through 1955.
He also explained the system of
unit cost used in compiling esti
mates for the company.
State Sen. Philip Lowry, one
of the three complainants in the
case, asked that information be
provided before the next hear
ing on SP's volume of land acre
age in Oregon, dates the land
was acquired, sales particulars
and leases. He also requested a
copy of SP's income tax return
be made available at the next
hearing. ,
Testimony Yesterday
Testifying yesterday afternoon
on behalf of the passenger serv
ice abandonment were the Med
ford postmaster and nine ship
pers from Medford, Central
Point,, Ashland, Roseburg and
Grants Pass.
- They included Robert W. Bash
ford, Roseburg, manager of
Douglas County Flour mill;
George C. Flanagan, Medford,
vice president and general man
ager. Elk Lumber company;
Woodruff C. Mattson, Ashland,
representing Red Blanket Lum
ber company. Prospect; R. W.
Rice, Grants Pass, vice president
and general manager, Engler
Husoncompany; Francis Cheney,
Medford, Cheney Forest Prod
ucts, Central Point; Hugh . R.
Blackater, Grants- Pass,, presi
dent and general manager, Pa
cific Custom Car Loaders, iSfUiree-
The committee said the tax
cut and other suggested changes
would have "very little impact"
on the budget, costing about
$600,000,000 the first year and
some $740,000,000 the second
year.
Other taxation recommenda
tions would permit business to
depreciate used property pur
chases up to $50,000. Such tax
deductions now are limited to
new machinery, buildings and
equipment. It was also recom
mended that smajll corporations
with under 10 stockholders be
allowed to be taxed as partner
ships. .
It recommended that the tax
payer be allowed 10 years to
manager, Custom Plywood; Rob
ert Collins, Medford, sales man
ager, Mt. Pitt company; Paul
William Hanson, Medford, re
tired fruit grower; and Moore
Hamilton, Medford postmaster.
They testified that rail freight
service had improved since aban
donment of passenger service in
August of 1955, though they
could not say whether or not the
improvement was a direct result
of passenger service discontinu
ance. '
Mail Service Improved
Hamilton testified that mail
service has been "greatly im
proved" since it was taken over
by Pacific Motor Trucking com
pany, a subsidiary of Southern
Pacific.
After cross examination of
Hamilton was completed, he was
made a complainants' witness by
Sen. Lowry. Under direct exami
nation Hamilton testified that
the railway mail service had
been unreliable and frequently
late, which resulted in additional
expense and poorer mail service.
Southern Pacific started its
defense of passenger service
abandonment on the Siskiyou
line Tuesday morning in the fed
eral courtroom at the Medford
post office building. Complain
ants presented their case at hear
ings last April. SP officials have
indicated it will take about five
more days to complete their case.
The remainder of the hearing
may be held in Roseburg, accord
ing to Examiner Ferguson.
Complainants in the case, be
sides Lowry, include State Sen.
Paul Geddcs, - Roseburg, and
State Sen. Gene Brown, Grants
Pass.
More Studies
Ferguson said he and his com
mittee on railroads will deter
mine whether or not more stu
dies should be made in the pub
lic interest following the forth
coming recessed hearing. Follow
ing that a general rebuttal hear
ing will be held. It is possible,
he said, that an out-of-state rail
way expert will be summoned to
study the case before the Public
Utilities Commission makes a de
cision. Present at the hearings
has been Robert Clark, a PUC
finance expert, who is partici
pating in PUC studies of this
case.
Contract Discussion
Set at Talent Today
The proposed contract between
the Talent Irrigation district and
the bureau of reclamation for
the repayment of part of the ir
rigation costs of the Talent proj
ect will be discussed at a meet
ing at 8 p.m. today in the new
Talent High school.
Officials of the bureau of rec
lamation and officers and board
members of the TID will be
available to answer questions
concerning details of the con
tract. Water users in the Talent dis
trict will vote Aug. 22 on the
contract, which has been nego
tiated between the district and
the bureau of reclamation for
repayment of about half the
cost which is allocated to irri
gation. Overall cost of the project has
been estimated at $20 million,
with about $5,800,000 covered
in the repayment contract over
a period of 60 years, interest
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pay estate taxes when the state
consists largely of investments
in closely-held business con
cerns. It said payment of heavy
estate taxes has been a "con
tributing cause of numerous
mergers." forcing the sale of
small concerns.
The committee urged the Pres
ident to arrange for a "compre
hensive review" of the govern
ment buying policies with a
view to permitting greater par
ticipation by small business. It
also urged that government con
tracting officers be more sympa
thetic to small business bidders
who may need advances from
the government in order to
carry out a contract.
Nixon and Stassen
Visit While House
Bui Do Not Meet
Washington U.R Vice
President Richard M. Nixon and
Harold E. Stassen, the man who
wants to keep him off the 1956
Republican ticket, visited the
White House at the same time
today but didn't run into each
other.
Nixon conferred about half an
hour with President Eisenhower
on Suez and other "internation
al affairs." Did they discuss poli
tics in general and perhaps
Stassen's dump Nixon drive in
particular? '
Nixon wouldn't say. Told that
Stassen also was in the White
House, the vice president just
smiled and said he hadn t been
aware of that.
Didn't See President
Stassen did not see the Presi
dent. He spent about 20 minutes
with Presidential Assistant Sher
man Adams. Stassen refused to
tell reporters the purpose of his
call. Assistant White House
Press Secretary Murray Snyder
refused to comment on the Stas-sen-Adams
meeting and said he
"wouldn't know" whether it was
about government- business or
something else.
Stassen is on leave of absence
as President Eisenhower's dis
armament adviser while push
ing his campaign against re
nomination of Nixon.
Nixon, Dewey Meet
Nixon and former New York
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey held a
behind the scenes meeting
Thursday night in a hoteP three
blocks from the White House.
Dewey said he and Nixon and
others present "talked about a
lot of things" including politics.
He would not say whether they
discussed the Stassen campaign.
Today, Nixon refused to go
any further than Dewey had in
describing the meeting. He told
reporters he had said all he is
going to ' say about vice presi
dential matters until the Repub
lican convention starts in San
Francisco Aug. 20.
Salem U.R) First meeting
of the ragweed control commit
tee will be held here Saturday.
Near the Jugular Vein
Harriman Arrives
To Personally Head
Nomination Drive
Former President To
Tell Choice Saturday
Chicago (U.R) Adlai E.
Stevenson came away empty
handed from a visit with former
President Truman today but in
dicated that he had not sought a
pledge of support for his bid for
the Democratic presidential nom
ination. At the same time. Gov. Aver
ell Harriman arrived here to
take personal charge of his cam
paign to come from behind and
wrest the nomination from the
front running Stevenson at next
week's Democratic National con
vention. ' Harriman was expected to pay
a call later today on Mr. Tru
man, who has long been re
garded as a secret supporter of
his old Cabinet officer.
Mr. Truman will dispel the
mystery about his intentions
Saturday by revealing his choice
for the nomination.
Under Heavy Pressure
He was under heavy pressure
from old political associates to
throw his weight behind Harri
man. Many of the early arriv
ing delegates, however, believe
he would endorse Stevenson be
cause it would be difficult to
stop the renominalion of the
former Illinois governor.
However, one of Mr. Tru
man's oldest Washington asso
ciates put it this way today:
"On the basis of his past atti
tude, I assume he is going to
endorse Harriman. But I can't
understand it. Stevenson's
chances of winning on the
second ballot would still look
good."
Stevenson spent 30 minutes
this morning at Mr. Truman's
hotel suite but said their discus
sion did not involve the nomina
tion. "We ' talked about the plat
form, we talked about the con
vention but we did not talk can
didates." he said.
Civil Rights Issue
He said he thinks that he and
Mr. Truman found themselves
in agreement on Ihe civil fights
plank of the party platform, the
issue which can still divide the
convention and affect Steven
son's chances.
Stevenson said his statement
this week favoring a plan giving
"unequivocal approval" of the
Supreme Court decision against
school segregation represented
no change in his previous stand.
Southern Democrats breathed
a sigh of relief Thursday when
Mr. Truman made no such
recommendation before the Plat
form committee.
When Stevenson and the ex
President were asked what was
decided at their session, Steven
son replied that they had "de
cided to elect a Democratic
president next November."
Two Grants Pass Men
Missing at Brookings
Brookings, Ore. (U.R) An air
and sea search was under way
today for three men, including
two Grants Pass dentists, report
ed missing after going fishing in
the Pacific ocean yesterday.
Missing were Dr. J. M. Hoatson
and Dr. Thomas A. Monahan of
Grants Pass, and Lloyd Morri
son of Harbor, owner of the boat
which failed to return yesterday.
Dr. Monahan is a member of
the Grants Pass city council.
A Coast Guard plane and two
private planes were searching in
the area west of here for the
three men.
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